The Battle of Poltava (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. A Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated ...

Poltava was hit on 18 August by four 4.7-inch (120 mm) shells, fired by a battery, that wounded six men. The new squadron commander, Rear Admiral Robert N.

Order a translation in Poltava. The translation agency offers the services of urgent translation of documents: notary, medical, apostille of documents, ...

At the great Battle of Poltava, Peter “had defeated Sweden's army; now, he had defeated her navy. His dearest ambition had always been to make Russia a sea ...

The Poltava Affair: A Russian Warning: An American Tragedy: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the Secret World War II Operation That Foreshadowed the Cold War.

On the morning of 27 June 1709, two armies faced each other in the fields near the Ukrainian city of Poltava. One was led by the young and ambitious.

The Swedish king rode up to the gates of the city with only three hundred cavalrymen, drew rein, and shouted, “Open the gates!” When the Cracow commander peered ...

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The Soviet ship Poltava en route to Cuba in September 1962. Admiral Alfred Ward commanded the U.S. forces that enforced the Cuban quarantine the ...